Description
This edited volume summarizes promising, evidence-based strategies clinicians can implement in their work with morally injured persons.
Many service members transitioning to civilian life struggle with mental health issues. For some, these mental health issues revolve around moral injury-- acts or experiences that contradict the individual's fundamental beliefs about the world, or how it ought to be. The book's expert contributors are researchers and clinicians who are leading efforts to define and assess moral injury, identify its potential mechanisms and outcomes, and develop and disseminate treatments to promote recovery and healing from morally injurious events. Through the use of case examples, authors discuss promising theoretical models for conceptualizing moral injury, prominent conceptual and clinical concerns for addressing such injuries in clinical practice, and existing and novel intervention approaches.Author: Joseph M. Currier
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 08/25/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781433832697
ISBN10: 1433832690
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Neuropsychology
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
About the Author
Joseph M. Currier, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who serves as Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Combined Clinical & Counseling Psychology (CCP) Doctoral Program at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Currier has been involved in research and scholarship on moral injury for roughly a decade, during which time he completed multiple research projects with VA medical centers and other clinical or community-based settings with military veterans. Dr. Currier has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles on trauma, meaning making, moral injury, and interplay between spirituality and mental health.